LETTER: Thanks to Tea Party

I think that all liberals should pause to thank the organization that had more to do with President Obama's re-election than all the debates and speeches and all the billions spent by super PACs.

These people spent the last four years working tirelessly, organizing, demonstrating and keeping their issues in the news. Of course, I am talking about the Tea Party.

I would ask the Tea Partiers to double their effort the next four years, and if they do I think we just might elect our first woman president.

I hope the Tea Partiers focus on the four issues that I think won the election for the Democrats and moved the Republican Party so far to the right that Genghis Khan would have been embarrassed to be a member.

1. The complete disregard for women's reproduction rights, birth control, abortion and rape. Sixty-eight percent of women of child-bearing age voted for Obama.

2. Not believing in climate change, evolution or stem-cell research. We don't know the percentage of people who voted for Obama over these issues, but anyone whose IQ is higher than their age should have.

3. Immigration — 75 percent of of Asians and Latinos voted for Obama.

4. Treating the president as a second-class citizen — 96 percent of blacks voted for Obama.

I have an idea on how the Tea Party can help the environment. Instead of using thousands of posters depicting Obama as Hitler, an atheist, Muslim, anti-Christ and other drawings supporting their views on the four issues I mentioned, they could print one poster with four sentences: